A former Janata Dal (Secular) activist was murdered at Sedam city in Kalaburagi district on Wednesday, police mentioned.
In keeping with police, genitalia of the sufferer, Mallikarjun Muthiyal, was minimize by the attackers and his head was crushed with a stone.
Muthiyal, 64, used to sleep in his electrical store and didn’t return dwelling within the morning. His son Srinivas who grew suspicious went looking for Muthiyal and located his physique in a pool of blood in an open place proper behind his store, police mentioned.
The Sedam police have registered a case of homicide underneath Part 302 of the Indian Penal Code and began an investigation.
“We have now registered a case and the investigation is underway. We’re hopeful to seek out out who has dedicated the crime. We’re some particular clues we now have,” Kalaburagi superintendent of police Isha Pant informed reporters. She dominated out that this case was a political homicide. “Prima facie it doesn’t look like a political homicide however we’re investigating the case from all angles,” Pant added.
Muthiyal, who was a pacesetter of Sedam’s Koli Kabbaliga group, had attended chief minister Basavaraj Bommai’s occasion on Monday in Kalaburagi to affix the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP). Nonetheless, resulting from some causes he couldn’t be a part of the saffron occasion, mentioned a police officer within the know of the event.
The sufferer’s son Srinivas informed reporters that their store was robbed round a 12 months in the past and since then Muthyal used to sleep within the store. “A 12 months in the past, our store was robbed. We suspect that they (robbers) have to be behind it. He doesn’t have any identified enemies. He by no means feared anybody. We suspect that they attacked him when he was sleeping and stole cash and different valuables,” he informed reporters.
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